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KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S
KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S operates as a moderately sized high school in FORT CAVAZOS, Texas, part of KILLEEN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 960 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 796.
Within KILLEEN ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 42,883 students, KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 17% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 52.6%; actual is 82.9%, +30.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Coryell County indicate median household income runs about $71,301, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Coryell County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,561 students), of which KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.
CLARKE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 14%: 840 students in 2018 compared to 960 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.
Inside the community feed, members of the KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Coryell County at a glance
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